Thyroid fine-needle aspiration: Smears versus liquid-based preparations

Cancer

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 144-148

  Ljung, Britt Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR; THYROID DISEASE; TISSUE PREPARATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; HUMANS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 47049128325     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23541     Document Type: Note

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